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When Rebecca Craighill Lancefield was a child around the turn of the century, scarlet fever seemed a dangerous disease that was easy enough to diagnose but difficult to treat. The victim got a raging sore throat, a high fever, and a rash that spread over most of his body and gave the illness its name. But physicians and bacteriologists found that though they could suppress the rash, they could do little else for their patients. Researchers also found that patients who had one bout of scarlet fever might never have another, but if they got the same kind of sore...
...cheers or waving flags greeted her passage through town. But if the authorities expected a screaming, stone-throwing mob, there was none of that either. Only a handful of silent, staring people peered curiously between the ranks of police and scarlet-coated Mounties. Possibly through fear, possibly by design, Quebec seemed to be staying home, for the most part ignoring her altogether...
This hyperbolic feast was placed before the princes, presidents and potentates of 13 Arab states by scarlet-jacketed waiters who marched in step as they served. Behind them stood Alexandria's pink-walled Haramlek Palace, and all around stretched floodlit lawns lined with palms and bordered by the gentle roll of Mediterranean waves...
...tons of water a day from nearby rivers, expects the first to be finished next week. Meantime, Japanese Self-Defense Force planes carrying dry ice and water have pounced on every passing cloud, and on the shores of the Ogochi reservoir, a Shinto priest in the mask of a scarlet lion writhed through a ceremonial rain dance. Townsmen were warned not to expect miracles. "It will take two days for the message to get through to the dragon god," the priest explained...
...common types of kidney disease, said Cornell's Dr. David D. Thompson, is inflammation of the filtering system itself, called glomerulonephritis. Richard Bright, who died before Pasteur even suggested the microbial theory of infectious diseases, noted that many victims of this kidney disorder had recently recovered from scarlet fever. Now that scarlet fever is known to be caused by streptococci, said Dr. Thompson, physicians can predict an outbreak of nephritis after a scarlet-fever epidemic...